Suraj Baghel

CEO

Hyderabad, Telangana, India11 yrs 11 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Proven track record in building high-performing engineering teams.
  • Expertise in scaling complex systems and aligning technology with business strategy.
  • Strong focus on customer value and continuous improvement.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned engineering leader in the SaaS and Big Data sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementAmazon Web Services (aws)Ai/mlSolution ArchitectureBig Data AnalyticsJava

Other Skills

AngularJSApache SparkC++Core JavaCross-functional Team LeadershipCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)DB2Data ScienceEngineering & People LeadershipGo (Programming Language)Google Cloud Platform (GCP)HDFSHadoopHibernateHive

About

Engineering leader with a proven track record of building high-performing teams, scaling complex systems, and aligning technology with business strategy to drive measurable outcomes. I lead through growth and ambiguity by driving clarity, speed, and a relentless focus on customer value. My strength lies in combining deep technical expertise with effective team structures and execution discipline — whether building distributed platforms, launching innovative products, or modernizing legacy systems. I foster engineering cultures rooted in trust, ownership, and continuous improvement, empowering teams to excel and leaders to grow. If you’re passionate about building resilient teams, tackling high-impact challenges, and leveraging technology to deliver real customer and business value — let’s connect.

Experience

Amazon

Software Development Manager

Oct 2025Present · 5 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

Kotak mahindra bank

Senior Software Development Manager

Oct 2023Oct 2025 · 2 yrs · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

Byju's

Senior Engineering Manager - Core Platform

Jun 2022Oct 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  • As Lead of Core Platform, managing multiple teams, responsible for crucial IAM and Notification capabilities for all the Byju’s group companies (Byju’s, Aakash, Topper, Whitehat Jr).
  • Managing collaboration with key stakeholders, product management & engineering teams, and various cross-functional teams to collect requirements, clarify ambiguity, and deliver high-quality Technology Platform at a rapid pace.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)Cross-functional Team LeadershipJavaEngineering ManagementGo (Programming Language)

Quantiphi

Engineering Manager (AI/ML)

May 2021May 2022 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Managed a team of 25+ ML/Data/Platform engineers, BAs, and Technical Architect to design & develop end-to-end AI/ML products and solutions on GCP within an Agile/Scrum environment.
  • Staffing, mentoring and leading a best-of-class engineering team, including creating career paths and performance evaluation.
  • Proposed, presented, and reviewed technical solutions & architecture. Engaging team in low-level design and code reviews.
  • Managed customer relationships and owned the overall life-cycle of ML solutions for different clients.
Solution ArchitectureGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)Customer Relationship Management (CRM)AI/MLEngineering Management

Iim calcutta - mbaex

MBA Candidate

Apr 2020Apr 2021 · 1 yr · Kolkata, West Bengal

Flipkart

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2018Jan 2020 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Team - Flipkart Data Group
  • Work involves development and maintenance of big data applications and platforms.
  • Roles and Responsibilities :
  • Development and maintenance of in-house extract, transform & load pipeline for big data environment.
  • Setup of stage environment for final end to end testing before moving any application to production.
  • For disaster recovery, developed applications and scripts to set up end to end Flipkart Data Platform with in few hours.
  • Setting up, managing and maintaining different Hadoop cluster environments and benchmarking.
  • Dr. Elephant Upgrade, addition of new features and reports.
  • Managing internal customers and stakeholders. Effective collaboration with different teams.
  • Accomplishments:
  • During sales ensured no downtime of systems and 100% internal customers & stakeholders satisfaction.
  • (Business continuity plan) Led initiative of continuous integration testing of all the applications.
  • Independently developed Test Framework and on-boarded all teams, improving production stability.

@walmartlabs india

2 roles

Software Engineer

Aug 2016Dec 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Team - Global Data Analytics and Platform
  • Work involves building big data applications and platforms to help the data quality efforts in Walmart Stores.
  • Roles and Responsibilities :
  • Building big data applications and platforms to help the data quality efforts for Walmart stores.
  • Solving challenging problems using the latest technology.
  • Ownership of the applications including feature enhancements and managing internal customers.
  • Effective coordination among teams situated in different geographical locations and mentoring new team members.
  • Accomplishments:
  • Co-inventor of US20190155801 and WO2019099987 Patents on Distributed Data Validation & Data Quality.
  • Played an important role in replacing third party paid product with in-house developed application.
  • Got Certificate of Excellence for solving business critical problems.
  • Projects:
  • 1. Systemic Data Validator (SDV):
  • Tech stack: Apache Spark, Java, HDFS, Yarn along with AngularJS and bootstrap at front end
  • For data quality check, it aims at comparing millions of records in minimal time with minimal manual effort. SDV can handle 100s of millions of records from various databases (Hive, SAP Hana, Teradata, Greenplum, My SQL, Oracle etc.), local file system and HDFS as well.
  • 2. Data Quality Platform for Data Lake:
  • Tech stack: Apache Spark, Java, HDFS, Yarn
  • Aims at providing a unified platform for all the data quality efforts in the organisation. Fast and parallel rule executions, consistency checks and other data quality checks on the massive data set of Data Lake is taken care of.
  • 3. Data Quality Monitoring on Data Lake:
  • Tech stack: Java, SpringBoot, amCharts, MySQL
  • Displaying various metrics of data quality check on a dashboard with alerting feature.
  • 4. Data Tagging (POC):
  • Tool helps in automatically tagging of data (using Natural Language Processing - Named entity recognition and Machine Learning), which will make it a lot easier for searching.

Intern - Software Engineer

Jan 2016Jun 2016 · 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Worked on two proof of concepts -
  • 1. Basic Business Rule Engine(BRE):
  • Given a data set , BRE would generate the business rule on the data and those rules can be validated against the same record in different databases or for different time delta. Helps to keep the consistency between the data sets in different medium.
  • 2. Bar Code Validator:
  • Provided a barcode image, the task was to validate the bar-code image with its actual number. Image processing using openCV and Neural networks for determining the numbers written below the barcode image were involved in the project.

Tata consultancy services

System Engineer

Feb 2012Jul 2014 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Ahmedabad Area, India

  • Roles and Responsibilities:
  • Owned a module of a very big scale Government finance project.
  • End to end system design and implementation of the module under guidance of a technical architect.
  • Experience of a full cycle project implementation from requirements to production, along with the responsibility of managing the work of other team members.
  • Accomplishments:
  • Youngest person to lead a team of 7 developers and won clients appreciation for before time delivery.
  • Tech stack: Java, Spring, Hibernate, DB2, JSP, Jasper Report
JavaSpringHibernateDB2Jasper Report

Education

Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

Master of Business Administration (MBA) — Business Administration and Management

Jan 2020Jan 2021

International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore

Master of Technology (MTech) — Data Science (Information Technology)

Jan 2014Jan 2016

Shri Shankaracharya Technical Campus Bhilai

Bachelor of Engineering (BE) — Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering

Jan 2007Jan 2011

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